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COVID-19: NUJ to FG: Reject Chinese Medical Team’s Intervention 

    …intervention may escalate COVID-19 crisis in Nigeria In a fit of pique, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has given a...

Coronavirus kills 2 in Nigeria as cases rise to 210

  The cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria continue to rise, as do deaths. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that two...

COVID-19 Palliatives: Beneficiaries now 2.6m people, says Minister

      More than 2.6 million people have benefitted from cash transfer under the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme (SIP), the Minister...

COVID-19: FG says set to evacuate Nigerians from other countries

  The Federal Government has offered a reprieve for Nigerian nationals living abroad who are desirous of returning to the country following the...

COVID-19 Lockdown: FG approves 4 hours daily for food markets in Lagos, Ogun, Abuja

    The Federal Government has announced guidelines for the implementation of COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions to curtail the spread of the virus...

Alleged brutality: COVID-19 Taskforce appeals to security personnels to apply caution

      The Presidential Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has appealed to security personnel deployed to enforce the lockdown...

COVID-19: Fake News Antithetical, Distracting Fight, says Lai Mohammed     

  In spite of caution, the spate of fake news and misinformation by Nigerians is on the rise and distracting the fight against Coronavirus,  Minister...

COVID-19 Lockdown : Winners’ Chapel donates ambulances, safety kits, food to Lagos, Ogun States

    Living Faith Church Worldwide  a.k.a Winners’ Chapel International has donated ambulances, test kits, personal protective device (PPE) to the Lagos and...

 NAFDAC approves Chloroquine mass production after clinical trials in China

  For possible clinical trial treatment of COVID-19 patients, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved mass...

COVID-19 claims Europe returnee, bringing fatalities in Nigeria to 2

      A second death has been recorded in Nigeria from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Health Minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire....

29-year-old newspaper suspends print edition after its reporter contracts COVID-19 

      After one of its reporters tested positive for the coronavirus, Viet Nam News, the country’s largest English-language newspaper, has suspended...

COVID-19: UCH CMD, Prof. Otegbayo, Nigeria Immigration CG, Babandede test positive 

  Latest report about the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that the Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, and...

What triggered Akure explosion, by Gov. Akeredolu

  The multiple explosion which occurred about two kilometres to Akure Airport in the wee-hours of Saturday was triggered by a fire which...

Scores of Houses, Churches, Schools Others Destroyed As Bomb Explosion Rocks Akure

  In Akure, the Ondo State capital, scores of houses, churches, schools and others have been shattered by defeaning multiple explosions reportedly triggered...

Obasanjo donates his 32-room Hilltop mansion for COVID-19 isolation centre 

  In a rare magnanimity, Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has handed over his 32-room mansion at Presidential Hilltop, Abeokuta, Ogun State, to the state government...

Again, NUPENG assures FG, Nigerians of uninterrupted petrol supply amid partial lockdown 

In league with the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has promised...